Yeah, I totally understand what you mean. I felt the same when I first got on AWS. What helped me immensely was taking a job where they had the whole stack on

Yeah, I totally understand what you mean. I felt the same when I first got on AWS. What helped me immensely was taking a job where they had the whole stack on AWS, and I had the chance to learn by doing. Secondly, I signed up for this class on Udemy and that taught me the details of setting up a legit infrastructure. https://www.udemy.com/aws-certified-solutions-architect-associate/ https://www.udemy.com/aws-certified-solutions-architect-asso... I agree it's challenging at first, but once you understand what's going on it's fucking awesome. You can configure every little thing and I have my system decently optimized to cost next to nothing.